Monstrous Fiction

Creatures of the night....Monsters...and lovers?

Updated November 30, 2024
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Miss Benson's beetle : a novel
Joyce, Rachel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A beautifully written, extraordinary quest in which two ordinary, overlooked women embark on an unlikely scientific expedition to the South Seas."--Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand   WINNER OF THE WILBUR...
Frankenstein, or, The modern prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts  kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I  saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and  then, on the working of some powerful engine, show  signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital  motion." A summer evening's ghost stories, ...
The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit." So begins one of the most beloved and delightful tales in the English language. Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and...

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